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How to Protect Your Heart: 5 Expert-Backed Daily Habits

In today’s face-paced living conditions, people don’t seem to be giving much attention to heart health. With less time for cooking healthy breakfasts, packaged foods or junk items are becoming replacements. Jobs that require us to spend a lot of time on our seats are making many of us sedentary.…

Times Life · Feb 10

Why scrapping a key health promotion agency makes little economic sense

News the world’s first independent health promotion agency – Australia’s own VicHealth – is to be abolished has been called “incomprehensible” and “a disaster” that places democracy at risk.

The Conversation · Feb 8

Woman in Bangladesh dies after contracting Nipah virus, says WHO

World health body says risk of international spread of disease is considered low

The Independent UK · Feb 7

Everything travellers need to know about Zika virus 10 years after epidemic

The NHS warns pregnant women to ‘consider avoiding travelling to a country with a risk of Zika virus’

The Independent UK · Feb 4

WHO announces restart of preventive cholera vaccinations after nearly 4-year halt

The World Health Organization has announced the restart of preventive cholera vaccination programs globally after they were halted for nearly four years due to a vaccine shortage

The Independent UK · Feb 4

Top preventable cancer causes in UK revealed – and how to cut your risk

Researchers estimate that 7.1 million of the 18.7 million cancer cases diagnosed globally in 2022 were preventable

The Independent UK · Feb 3

Not vaccinating enough children against measles could cost England £290m, experts warn

The UK is no longer considered to have ‘eliminated’ measles, according to global health officials

The Independent UK · Feb 3

Nigerian women and contraceptives: study finds big gaps between the haves and the have-nots

Nigerian women who are wealthier, more educated and urban are more likely to use modern contraceptives than poorer, less educated and rural women. This is one of the findings of a study that assessed patterns of inequality in modern contraceptive use. This highlights persistent inequalities in access to family planning…

The Conversation · Feb 3

Palestinians line up to cross Rafah after rocky first day of reopening of Gaza-Egypt border crossing

A group of Palestinian patients treated in Egypt have arrived on the Egyptian side of the Rafah border crossing, hoping to return to Gaza with their families

The Independent UK · Feb 3

US WHO exit threatens global health security, ex-CDC official warns

The former head of the CDC's vaccine commission and former White House health official tells Euronews Health about the risks following the Trump administration's decision.

Euronews · Feb 3